Word: laconicism
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Give or take some creases over the eyes, the huge, leathery face has hardly changed. Nor have the jutting jaw, the laconic grin, the squinting eyes blue as the big sky. The shoulders on his rangy (6 ft. 4 in.) frame still seem persuasive enough to get his football scholarship...
A Simple Matter. Early last week Radványi called his office to say that he planned to take a few days off. Next he called "American authorities"-most likely his old friend Dean Rusk-to ask asylum for himself, his wife Julianna and their son János, 15...
Muzzy Hours. But Carson's chief attraction is Carson. An assured, natural entertainer-he was already a network headliner at 29-Johnny is the epitome of cool. He is intelligent, laconic, deferential and facile. On occasion, he asks the studio audience to submit questions to him on any subject...
"Timely hitting" was the way laconic Manager Red Schoendienst explained his team's 6-1 record and its lofty position atop the National League. The adjective was too mild. In seven games, the Cards had bettered opposing pitchers for 85 hits and 52 runs; the whole team was batting...
Laconic to the point of taciturnity, Playwright Gilroy seems to have performed a sort of Pinterectomy on his dialogue without Pinter's flair for making silence crackle. The cast underplays to the point of emotional invisibility, a particular waste in the case of Irene Papas. There are 2,500...